| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Frank Hruby, Sr. Family Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Hruby Family | | | | Dates: | 1884-2001 | | | | Abstract: | Frank Hruby Sr. (1856-1812) was the founder and patriarch of one of Cleveland, Ohio's leading musical families. A native of Bohemia, he traveled throughout Europe as a musician and conductor before settling in 1884 in Cleveland, where he organized the Great Western Band in 1889. His eight children all became musicians, including several who became members of the Cleveland Orchestra. In 1916, two of his children, Frank (V) and Fred, founded the Hruby Conservatory of Music in Cleveland. The collection consists of 400 mostly black and white photographs, 280 slides, 100 negatives, and 20 sound recordings (17 records, one cassette, and one reel-to-reel tape). | | | | Call #: | PG 608 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Great Western Band (Cleveland, Ohio). | Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Conductors (Music) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Arrangers (Musicians) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Czech Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Czechs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Orchestral music.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Al Russ Papers
| | | | Creator: | Russ, Al | | | | Dates: | 1918-1998 | | | | Abstract: | Al Russ was a Cleveland, Ohio, popular music orchestra leader, composer, arranger, string bass player, and producer. His career spanned the 1940s-1990s. In addition to his work as leader of the Al Russ Orchestra, Russ conducted, arranged music, and contracted musicians for performances featuring nationally known artists at the Front Row Theater. He also wrote and arranged music for such nationally known performers as Perry Como and Steve Lawrence, and composed polkas for polka band leader Frank Yankovic. His work as a composer of advertising commercials and jingles for local and national companies included Cleveland's best-known jingle, "Garfield one, two-three, two-three." The collection consists of orchestral and vocal arrangements of popular music, his original compositions, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and Cleveland Federation of Musicians contracts between Russ and hired players. | | | | Call #: | MS 4825 | | | | Extent: | 10.0 linear feet (10 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Russ, Al, 1918-1998. | Yankovic, Frank. | Jeffries, Joe. | Macey, Hugh. | Al Russ Orchestra. | Ohio Bell Telephone Company Chorus. | Society National Bank (Cleveland, Ohio) | National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (U.S.). Cleveland Chapter. | American Federation of Musicians. Local No. 4 (Cleveland, Ohio) | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Popular music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Conductors (Music) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Composers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jingles (Advertising songs) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Arrangements (Popular music and jazz). | Arrangers (Musicians) -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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